French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe want Paris to take responsibility for harming their land with a toxic pesticide. Ruptly crew went to see its effects on the people, who suffer skyrocketing cancer and fertility problems. Kepone, also called chlordecone, is a chemical, which was used in the past to kill insects. Just like closely related compounds DDT and Mirex, it proved to be a bad choice,... 

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has rejected a German plan to return up to 40,000 migrants to Italy, vowing to “close the airports” if necessary. Responding to reports that Germany is preparing to begin flying migrants to Italy in “the coming days,” Salvini blasted the scheme, indicating his willingess to apply the same approach to airports as he has taken to seaports... 

A person suspected to be linked to the murder of a Bulgarian investigative journalist has been detained, Reuters reports citing a government source familiar with the investigation. The detainee allegedly holds Romanian citizenship as well as a Moldovan passport, according to unconfirmed reports in Bulgarian media. An Interior Ministry spokesperson neither confirmed nor denied the information. Bulgarian... 

At least 21 people have been killed in a series of five bizarre crashes involving Sudanese air force craft and helicopters during the 24-day period from September 9 to October 3, according to the official Sudanese army’s Twitter feed. On October 3, the Sudanese army Twitter feed reported that “Sudan Air Force AN 30 & AN 32, both crashed while landing at Khartoum airport ,the airport is closed... 

Two Red Cross workers were seriously wounded on Tuesday this week when local tribesmen attacked them while they were carrying out safe Ebola burials in the northeastern Congo city of Butembo, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. According to reports, the latest attack was “the most violent attack on Red Cross workers in this outbreak” since September,... 

A Palestinian shot dead two Israelis and wounded another at a West Bank settlement’s industrial zone today. Security forces are hunting the suspected assailant who also worked at the site, the Israeli army said. Since the attack was allegedly carried out by a Palestinian employed at the Barkan industrial zone in the occupied West Bank, questions were raised over whether he knew the victims and... 

Wow the world is changing, a new world order! A right wing order…. quite shocking! Honestly we were expecting of white people to just quietly go and die off, go extinct in some dark corner somewhere without a fight, without even a freaking VOTE fight, let alone a physical fight but look more and more countries are changing towards the right. Unbelievable! Its a miracle from God! First Trump... 

A TV reporter who covered EU funds fraud cases was brutally murdered and allegedly raped in northern Bulgaria. The horrific indent is the third murder of a journalist in the EU amid concerns over press freedom. The body of Victoria Marinova, 30, who hosted a show on local TVN, was found dead on a popular jogging route near the Danube River in the city of Ruse on Saturday. The city has never seen such... 

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party is fighting the Tel Aviv local government election campaign with a poster showing blacks waving an Eritrean flag contrasted with a Star of David flag with the words “It’s us or them: City of Infiltrators versus Hebrew City”—an image and slogan which if used by non-Jews anywhere else would cause the Jewish lobby-controlled media to be up in arms over “racism.” According... 

At least 2 people have been seriously injured in a shooting in the Champs-Elysees area, in heart of the French capital, AFP and Le Parisien report. The incident took place on Sunday morning and police have arrived at the scene. The two victims were transported “in serious condition after being injured by firearms,” ​​ a spokesman for the Paris Fire Brigade said. “They got shot,” some of... 

The Indian government has deported the first set of Rohingyas claiming to be “refugees” back to Myanmar—with the deportees’ consent, making a mockery of worldwide controlled media claims and liberals who claim that it is “unsafe” to send them home. According to a report in the Telegraph of India, that country’s Supreme Court on Thursday “allowed the deportation of seven Rohingya Muslims... 

Domenico Lucano is the guy with the jean jacket. An Italian mayor has been placed under house arrest for allegedly aiding illegal migrants. Domenico Lucano, mayor of Riace, was accused of “ruthlessly” exploiting arranged marriages to game Italy’s migration law, according to Reuter’s reporting on a prosecutor’s statement. “[Lucano] arranged marriages with ‘particular ruthlessness’ between... 

Addressing the inauguration of the revamped Budai Vigado cultural centre in Budapest’s first district on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it was Europe, not Hungary, that was locked in a culture war. If we let them replace the cultural subsoil, Europe would collapse like a house of cards “This European culture war is the fight for our own culture,” the prime minister said. “Sometimes... 

The Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berel Lazar, has denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to send the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Syria as a “mistake” and expressed the hope that Israel could “deal” with the threat. EUTIMES inserted commentary: The question we would like to ask is why would a rabbi get involved into politics and military affairs like this? When is the last... 

At least three people, including a 12-year-old, were killed by Israeli troops as some 20,000 Palestinians rallied at the Gaza border. Amid the clashes, the IAF struck ‘terrorist targets’ in retaliation for border breach attempts. Thousands of Palestinian activists assembled near the Gazan-Israeli border, with some trying to breach the fence amid a heavy Israeli security presence, burning tires...